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Article: Fox's in-house syndicator.(Twentieth Television)
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- Broadcasting & Cable
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- January 18, 1999
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Twentieth Television
Company sells off-Fox shows while creating first-run programming for O&Os
Since Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. acquired 20th Century Fox from Marvin Davis in 1985, the studio has turned into one of the hottest network television sitcom and drama producers in all of Hollywood.
Because so much of the studio's programming airs on the networks, Fox's in-house syndication division, Twentieth Television, has found itself over-whelmed with off-network syndication product over the last few years.
In the '90s alone, Twentieth has been selling in syndication such 20th Century Fox-produced shows as NYPD Blue, The X-Files, The ...